Duke in the News: Oct. 29, 2003

BATTLE ERUPTS ANEW OVER 'HEALTHY FORESTS' Sacramento Bee, Oct. 29 -- Norm Christensen, a Duke University forestry scientist who grew up in California, says the thinning envisioned in proposed federal "Healthy Forests" legislation would do little to prevent the fires now raging in Southern California. ... Full story

TAKING CARELESS RISKS WITH COASTAL PROPERTIES? CNNfn's FlipSide, Oct. 28 -- Retired Duke coastal geologist Orrin Pilkey joined a discussion of whether the government is luring people into building in environmentally-risky areas. (Archive not available online; transcript available by e-mail upon request.) ...Website

PROTESTERS: DUKE SHOULD REJOIN PICKLE BOYCOTT (Durham, N.C.) Herald Sun, Oct. 29 -- About 150 farm labor organizers, clergy and students rallied in the rain Tuesday at Duke University, calling on university officials to rejoin a boycott of Mt. Olive Pickle Co. products. ...Full story --Also, (Duke) Chronicle: Protesters: 'Say No to Mt. Olive' Full story

SAFETY TRIALS FOR INSOMNIACS Time, Oct. 27 -- Interest runs high in a new study sponsored by the drugmaker Sepracor and led by Dr. Andrew Krystal, director of Duke University's Sleep Research Laboratory and Insomnia Clinic. ... Full story

MONEY PROBLEMS SHELVE DOUBLETAKE Boston Globe, Oct. 29 -- The future of the magazine founded out of the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke is still very much in doubt. ... Full story

DURHAM DOCTOR, DUKE PROFESSOR LOOKING AT ALS/GULF TIES (Durham, N.C.) Herald-Sun, Oct. 29 -- A Duke University medical professor and a Durham doctor who launched a national registry for military veterans with Lou Gehrig's disease this summer said increased enrollment in the registry might help investigators explore the connection between the illness and military service in the 1991 Persian Gulf War. ...Full story

COLUMN: A BUSY YEAR FOR VOLUNTEERS, STAFF AND TURTLES Jupiter (Fla.) Courier, Oct. 29 -- Duke University Ph.D. candidate Kelly Stewart again led the 24/7 leatherback marathon this past summer at Juno Beach. ... Full story

ON THE AIR Duke Univerity computer science professor Hao Yan discusses nanotechnology, the science of building things at the smallest, molecular scale, on the BBC World Service radio program Discovery today (Wednesday, Oct. 29). Listen to archived audio. ...Listen